26 Jun A Woman Spent Time with 626 of Her Facebook Friends and Photographed It to Prove a Point

Be honest, how many of your Facebook friends would you count as real friends? The type of people you could turn to in an emergency, confide your deepest and darkest secrets to, and spend 24 hours watching RuPaul’s Drag Race in your PJs together.

I’ll be the first to go ahead and openly admit that the whole reason I keep Facebook around is to keep in touch with far away pals, wistfully archive nostalgic photos – and creepily stalk the hell out of all of the people who I haven’t seen haven’t seen hide nor hair of since my days as a schoolgirl. Do I count most of these people as friends? No. Were we even pals in the first place? Maybe not. Do I plan on ever talking to these people again? Nope.

The truth is, Facebook has completely and utterly redefined friendship. Nowadays a “friend” can be anything from that b*tchy girl from school that you absolutely despised but are keen to keep tabs on, to a drunken someone you met in the bathroom in a club that one time who just had to add you before she went to vomit her guts up.

Marine-based photographer Tanja Hollander set out to explore this bizarre newfangled definition and, in an attempt to differentiate the actual from the virtual, decided to travel to the homes of every single one of her 626 Facebook friends to spend time with them and photograph them. Amazingly, by the time she ended her trip in Israel in 2016, she’d visited over four continents, 12 countries, 34 states and more than 400 households.

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